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My ex-career as a muslimahSat, 10 Mar 2018 20:23:30 +0000enhourly1http://wordpress.com/https://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.pngevebitestheapplehttps://evebitestheapple.wordpress.com
Just imaginehttps://evebitestheapple.wordpress.com/2017/02/08/just-imagine/
Thu, 09 Feb 2017 02:36:47 +0000http://evebitestheapple.wordpress.com/?p=419A few days ago, a report started circulating that Yemeni rebels(or military) launched a successful missile strike against Saudi Arabia. The story claimed that the missile landed a short distance from Riyadh which is the capital of Saudi Arabia:

For the most part, this story mainly appeared on the conspiracy sites. I found one entry on a mainstream media site but the rest have been silent. There has been speculation if the strike was true or not and at least two different stories have come from Saudi so far about it. The first cover story was that there was an earthquake and a meteor near Riyadh. I guess the light in the sky from the missile was supposed to be the meteor and the the missile striking the ground was supposed to be the earthquake. However there were no entries on earthquake tracking websites for a quake in or near Riyadh when officials claimed it was.

The second story is the one I read in the link above that states that Saudi intercepted the missile which I believe to be false. But at least that forces Saudi to admit that there was indeed a missile aimed for the vicinity of Riyadh and that it was not a “meteor”.

I was intrigued by this story for a number of reasons. I assume that Yemenis fire missiles across the border into Saudi all of the time but this time is different because of 1)the distance and 2)the length of this war. The distance from the border of Yemen is at least 800 miles so this is not like stuffing a grenade into a launcher and shooting it a few yards away like a tennis ball. The rebels are getting into heavy duty stuff to launch a missile that far and that accurately. Added to that is the fact that Saudi and UAE have been bombing Yemen for two years as well as blocking food and medical supplies to Yemen. Reports state this has created a humanitarian crisis of malnutrition, starvation, and death due to lack of medical aid and food. Despite all of this the rebels STILL managed to continue to advance their attacks. That is some serious determination for a little rag tag group of fighters who don’t have anywhere near the advantage Saudi does.

Perhaps this didn’t make the media because our government is well aware of the sensitive little bubble Americans live in and they can’t handle the truth so they carry on with the circus show. Or perhaps they don’t want anti-immigration to gain any more steam so they cover these stories up. Who knows. But it is up to the individual to take what information they can find and use it to make the best decisions for themselves and those around them.

With this breaking story I figure that an invasion into Saudi is on the horizon by both Yemen and Iran and possibly some rebels in Iraq. It’s just a matter of time and the Yemenis will continue to test their strength and ability. I think the U.S. military is quietly preparing for this and upping their presence near Saudi border. Iranian officials have already issued a threat to the U.S. that indicates they plan to invade Saudi sooner or later. They stated something along the lines that if the U.S. meddles into their military affairs then they will unleash a bomb on Israel. Former President Obama unleashed Iran off the chain for his “legacy”. #thanksObama

At the end of the day, while this is interesting, I’m not too moved by it because Muslims are always praying for jihad, always praying to be martyrs, and always praying to fight and die in the cause of Allah. They do it in dua and salat, daily and yearly. Ask and you shall receive. They desire nonstop war so they get nonstop war and an invasion into Saudi would be no different. It would be them getting what they want because of the energy they put out there. If Muslims truly wanted peace like they falsely claim then they would stop praying and wishing for so much war. But they don’t because Islam places a high value and high reward on the jihad for the sake of Allah so it won’t end until Muslims feel they conquered every corner of the world or at least die trying.

So I was thinking about this and how President Trump is trying to limit the number of rebel Yemenis sliding through the U.S. immigration system via a ban and restriction. The perplexing part is how both liberals and neoconservatives have come out in protest of this restriction and, for some oddball reason, they want to keep these people flowing through the gates. I think most Americans in their bubble feel they are still pretty safe from more major attacks despite 9/11 and the Boston Marathon. Unfortunately it would take a real blow to shock them into reality. That is something no one wants and Trump is trying to prevent while Obama, Hillary, and Bernie were willing to hand over lickety-split.

Still don’t think it’s possible for America to be invaded? Just imagine if some jihadi fighters manage to slip into Mexico and Canada via a very loose refugee settlement program. Eventually the jihadis leave their settlement camps and move to the Mexican and Canadian border of the U.S. and start to group up. The jihadis start receiving military shipments through connections they have made. One morning you wake up, turn on the news, and to your horror you learn that rebels along the U.S. borders have fired land missiles into the U.S. from Mexico and Canada. Those missiles struck Houston and Dallas along the southern border and New York and Seattle along the north border. The recent Yemen attack on Riyadh has illustrated that it is very possible.

Before you have time to gather information more news comes in that there have been multiple attacks in major U.S. cities because rebels were allowed in through U.S. immigration to appease liberals and neocons. With U.S. defenses scattered and spread out, the rebels along U.S. border start their march into the U.S.. Just imagine, what would you do?

The pre-planned howling to Donald Trump’s order on immigration has begun. I checked the weather today and there was slew of shrieking headlines in the news about chaos at various airports. I found it amusing but didn’t bother to read any of the crisis articles. As with BLM and women’s marches these are all color revolutions meant to impose regressive policies on an entire population.

There are countries that issue something called investment visas. The U.S. has regularly called for those countries to shut those programs down because terrorists might use those visas as loopholes. So why is it recommended for other countries to protect their borders from these terrorists but the U.S. is expected to have porous borders that let any and everybody in with zero checks and balances?

Muslim countries are allowed to detain whoever they want for however long they want in their countries but the U.S. is expected to continually let Muslims run about the U.S. as they please. Even with all of the constant attacks on the U.S., France, Nigeria, Germany, Somalia, Australia, Sweden, Egypt, Britain, and other countries everyone is expected to let these people move about as they please. It is my understanding that non-muslims are not allowed to go to certain parts of Saudia Arabia but Muslim should be allowed to go wherever they want in the U.S.? Even after 9/11, boston marathon, california attacks, France theater attacks, and on and on and on. I mean damn, when the hell will Americans get a backbone to say enough of the murders?

It won’t happen though because the guilt trips are already being implemented. Oh, remember the Holocaust, the Japanese, yada yada yada. Liberals like to keep people in a perpetual state of guilt and victimhood so they can impose their regressive policies on an entire population and this time is no exception. Despite all of its flaws, the U.S. is one of the last great civilizations that Islam aims to decimate and overtake. No doubt once that was done, then the U.S. would be used to take out the last two rivals: China and Russia. Once that’s done, Israel would be obliterated and then a dark cloud of death and despair called Islam would be spread all over the world.

Muslim rulers planned on flooding the U.S. with Muslim refugees not because they give a shit about them. The way Saudi and the U.A.E. is pounding Yemen with bombs is testament that they don’t care anything about other Muslims. No, the plan was to change the voting demographics so there would be more Muslims to vote in regressive Islamic policies little-by-little, step-by-step. Mr. Obama tried relentlessly for 8 years to get rid of America’s gun laws but couldn’t get it done. Mrs. Clinton would have done it with an executive order but….SHE LOST! #bloop. So they next logical step would be to change the voter base to one that is more favorable to takeover policies vis-a-vie flooding the U.S. with “refugees”.

Saudi Arabia, U.A.E., Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, and several other Muslim countries have more than enough space and money to house the refugees of the countries they keep bombing and attacking. They all have Islamic laws already in place that would be more suitable for Muslims. Why would Muslims want to come to a country filled with alcohol consumption, pork, music, atheists, riba, and uncovered women when they can go to Saudi Arabia where they can worship Allah freely? Because the objective isn’t to help refugees, the objective is much worse.

This doesn’t mean all Muslims are terrible people. On the contrary, many are warm, kind-hearted people that had the misfortune of having Islam imposed on them through the centuries. No one is born Muslim. Islam works in 3 stages: first by deception, second by violence, and third by takeover, assimilation, and birthrate. If the U.S. insists on wanting to help Muslim refugees then it should be required that they denounce Islam, both verbally and in the heart. There are Islamic rules that allow for Muslims to do this when they have no choice so the next step would be to drive the hammer in. No Qurans or masjids will be allowed for refugees. Muslim women will not be allowed to cover. No Muslim prayers will be allowed. No food will be checked for pork. Women and men will not separated except for usual areas such as bathing areas. They will not be forced to convert to Christianity but will not be allowed to practice Islam. Only on those conditions will aid be given to them.

No one cry foul and say this unfair. The U.S. has squashed other ideologies that was oppressing people: Waco, Mormon farms where under-aged girls were being married off against their will, and smaller cults that have been created by false prophets and later abolished by U.S. authorities. Islam should be treated the same way.

Now if any Muslim can withstand that assault on their beliefs they are either willing to give up the deen or a true jihadi willing to endure anything to further Islam. If people ask why such a heavy-handed method is needed then the answer is: 1)Muhammad is/was not a prophet and 2)Allah is not God. Therefore there is no need for Americans or any other country to allow Muslims to continue to spread their violent ideology and ruin the lives of countless innocent people.

]]>evebitestheapplewolfsheepHalf a penny for your thoughtshttps://evebitestheapple.wordpress.com/2017/01/26/half-a-penny-for-your-thoughts/
https://evebitestheapple.wordpress.com/2017/01/26/half-a-penny-for-your-thoughts/#respondThu, 26 Jan 2017 20:01:42 +0000http://evebitestheapple.wordpress.com/?p=409Her share is equal to one-half of her brother’s share. The male takes a share equal to that of two females. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):

“Allaah commands you as regards your children’s (inheritance): to the male, a portion equal to that of two females”

[an-Nisaa’ 4:11]

These are the shares which have been decreed by Allah. So it is not permissible for anyone to change any part of them, or to deprive an heir, or to bring in anyone who is not an heir, or to deprive an heir of any part of his inheritance or to give him more than the share allotted to him by sharee’ah.

My children would receive gifts of cash for various reasons when they were young. It might be for a holiday or for no particular reason at all. Sometimes the gifts would come from their father, family members, and/or friends. They don’t receive money as much as they used to but it still occurs. I have girls and boys but every single time they were given cash, their father would give my boys more money than he would my girls. Even if the money did not come from him but from someone else he would take it and give the boys more than the girls.

I questioned him about this once and he stated he did so because of the inheritance laws and similar laws of Islam that dictate that girls receive less than boys if there are male children. This was not inheritance money but gifts yet there is shariah application of the Quranic verse that this applies to all money given to children. Granted these type of views are not unique to Islam but because followers of Islam are incapable of making any changes to the religion, the practice remains steadfast today in the 21st century.

This was one of the (many) times I felt like Allah could kiss my ass. I changed that policy once I found out what he was doing. For example if someone gave him $50 to give to my children then he would give the boys $10 each and my girls $5 each. So I would make them give it to me and divide the funds equally amongst them, regardless of gender. In this example it worked out to be a little over $8 each. I have done this numerous times regardless of Islamic law and let my children know why I was doing it.

Whether it was inheritance or a gift I had no intention of anyone, including the fake god Allah, indoctrinating into my daughter’s heads that their value was less than that of man. I saw so reason to impose such law on young girls because it had no benefit other than to create a breeding ground for low self-esteem, inferiority, and insecurity about money.

Some may say this law is needed in some situations such as if the brother(or male) is caretaker to younger women. Perhaps but it does not take into account if the sister is older than the brother and she is the caretaker. So if you have an 18 year old girl and 4 year old baby brother that she is taking care of she still receives less than him even though she is doing more. The one who controls the purse controls the house. There was no Allah sending these directives, it was Muhammad that instituted this to maintain control over women and to prevent them from having any say so over their lives from cradle to grave.

If a person wants to institute this request in their own inheritance order then that is on them. It should be done on a case-by-case basis. If families are arguing over who receives what then that can also be judged on case-by-case basis. But to codify into into one uniform religious edict that is unchangeable until the end of time is the precursor to poverty and misery which is there is plenty of in countries dominated by Islamic rule.

This is the bullshit that feminists and liberals support. This is what they stand in “solidarity” with. Feminists, liberals, and terrorists have two things in common: Islam and violence. They like to think they are progressive but they are anything but. Listen to any of these people for more than 15 minutes and all they talk about is the past. They never focus on anything good and build upon it. They only focus on the bad and the past in an effort to keep people in a perpetual state of guilt and victimhood in order to impose their regressive policies on the entire population.

This is how they operate and how Islam operates. First by deception, then by violence, and finally by assimilation and takeover. Much like the virus it is.

“It is not permissible for a human being to prostrate to another human being. Were it permissible for a human being to prostrate to another human being, I would have commanded the woman to prostrate to her husband because of his great right upon her. By the One in Whose hand is my soul, if he (the husband) had, from his feet to the top of his head, an ulcer oozing blood and pus, and she came to lick it off for him, she would not have fulfilled his right.”

I don’t know what made these ahadith cross my mind but I felt the need to put them here because it shows the real face of Islam and not the candy-coated version that Saudi Arabia tries to portray in order to gain approval to spread Islam all over the world.

These were some of the first ahadith I read in the early days as young Muslim women are immediately herded into marriage. They were the also some of the first hadith that made me almost denounce Islam shortly after I had accepted it. I had no intention of licking any man’s pus, I don’t care what any “god” said. Eventually the cover-ups started coming in and claims that these ahadith were metaphorical only in order to show the importance of a woman’s subservience to her husband.

Females were not allowed to vote in any U.S. masjid activities as late as the 90s. They could donate their cash but could not have a say in a matters of the masjid. Muslimahs complained and eventually these rules were overturned. I don’t think it had anything to do with women protesting though. I think the masajid feared losing their non-profit status if they didn’t let women vote and probably some orders came from Saudi to let them vote in order to not make Islam look bad. Best believe if a full blown shariah were ever implemented then those “rights” would be immediately stripped and revoked.

All was not lost during my time spent as a Muslim. Islam works by deception and those years allowed me the chance to see its true nature and not the fake picture that Arabs try to show. What I find odd is that liberals and feminists will rail night and day against Christianity but will fight to death to protect Islam. This is not an argument for Christianity but an observation of how lopsided these people are.

They will stand in “solidarity” to defend a belief system that requires all women to dress as the woman in the picture from puberty until she is too old to be desired by men but somehow find a problem with Trump. Riiggghhhhttttt……

Feminists and liberals are some of the most ass-backwards, regressive, violent loons anyone will have the misfortune of meeting. Undercover Islamic organizations such as CAIR use them as donkeys and mules to quietly usher in Islam little-by-little, step-by-step. These ahadith should be an eye-opener to the real destructive nature of Islam.

]]>https://evebitestheapple.wordpress.com/2017/01/22/pus-does-a-body-good/feed/0evebitestheappleniqabeeFringe benefits – part 11 – go outside in the eveninghttps://evebitestheapple.wordpress.com/2016/09/13/fringe-benefits-part-11-go-outside-in-the-evening/
https://evebitestheapple.wordpress.com/2016/09/13/fringe-benefits-part-11-go-outside-in-the-evening/#respondTue, 13 Sep 2016 19:45:42 +0000http://evebitestheapple.wordpress.com/?p=400“When night falls, keep your children indoors, for the devils are out and about at this time. When an hour of the night goes by, you can let them go.” [Sahîh al-Bukhârî: (3280, 5623) and Sahîh Muslim (2012)]

“Do not send out your cattle or your children when the sun sets until the blackness of the night descends, for indeed the Satans are sent forth when the Sun sets until the blackness of the night descends.”

This benefit crossed my mind the other night when I told one of my children to go outside and sweep the sidewalk. It was evening time and the sun was setting so according to Islam it would be approaching the Magrhib prayer time. She hesitated and I asked her why and she replied she didn’t like going out at night. Granted it wasn’t fully dark but she did ask one of her siblings to go outside while she completed the task.

There was no reason for her to say this other than her Muslim father calls them and tries to tell them to follow this or that Islamic ruling. Any practice of Islam is banned in my house even though their dad continuously calls and tells them to practice Islam. My kids are not allowed to pray Islamic practices at home, they are not allowed to repeat so much as a “Bismillah” so that infuriates the dad who tries to get them follow whenever he can. The religion of Islam is utter trash and I see no reason to indoctrinate my kids with the belief that it has some redeeming qualities.

So when I first apostated, my children would not go outside in the evening for fear that some devils were lurking about based on the above hadith even though I told them it was okay. When they were younger I would let them play outside but their Abi would have a panic attack if they were out at the time of Maghrib and would insist that they come into the house based on Muhammad’s sayings. From there they developed a fear of being outside at that time and wouldn’t go despite my assurances that they didn’t have anything to worry about. Or at least nothing atypical. If we lived in a bad neighborhood or an area with large animals roaming around then I may tell them to come in based on those factors but not because there are supposed to be some invisible jinn roaming about looking to snatch children.

As time passed though, they became less fearful of going out at that time and would spend more time outside with friends when the sun was setting. This meant they were out being kids: catching lightning bugs, observing the creeping night sky, and enjoying the cool evening before going to bed. Once their Abi got wind of it, he made a point of calling at Maghrib time and telling them to go into the house because of Muhammad and his jinn. I knew because their patterns started changing and I asked why they stopped playing outside. They told me why so I took their phone around that time so he could stop calling and scaring the shit out of my kids for no damn reason other that wanting to force his beliefs on them as all Muslims are required to do.

People may argue that they had to be in the house too when it was getting dark. This is a weak argument, if an argument at all. Hell, when I lived with my grandmother I had to be near the house when the streetlight came on or risk getting a whipping. This was a parental rule that she created and chose to enforce because she thought it was best for my safety. This was not a religious ruling based on false data with no proof that is meant to be inflicted on the rest of society for time immemorial and no questions asked. The two scenarios are apples and oranges. Islam is spread by deception first , war second , and birthrate third. The deception gets them through the gates, the war kills all of those who don’t comply, and the birthrate grows the numbers. So Muslim talib-ul-ilm will use the example of be at home before the streetlight to compare to Muhammad’s tradition and say they are really the same, full of wisdom, blah blah blah when nothing can be further from the truth.

So when my daughter expressed that fear again after being absent for so many years, I can only guess it is coming from one source. And I feel bothered that she is developing a fear of something so benign as being outside at certain time due to some archaic religious beliefs. In many situations people should have the tools to address their fears and try to fix them, However when you condition a person to believe they should be afraid of something and they have absolutely no way of fixing it then that is extreme brainwashing and mind control that leaves irreparable damage.

Once again Muslims, ruling by way of deception, will fire back with some stupid shit like “I am afraid to touch a hot stove because I will get burned. If Allah said sent a verse to not touch hot stoves wouldn’t this be the same thing”.

To which the reply should be, “No dumbass, it is not the same thing.” This is the type of primitive, uneducated thinking that Muslims push day in and day out and why it can only be enforced by the sword.

And also because Muhammad was making this shit up as he went he never bothered to address the people living in places where it would be dark for hours on end and for several months a year. Why didn’t Allah tell Muhammad that the people around the Alaska area will always be stuck in their houses if they were to apply this ruling. When were they supposed to come out. Were the jinn out 24/7 for six months in Alaska? What about parts of Norway? Why didn’t Allah mention of it would be okay to come out once electricity and vehicles were invented? Surely Allah knows everything and He would have known that around-the-clock lighting was on the horizon so why didn’t He and Muhammad address that in the Quran and hadith? Because Muhammad was a farce(as well as Jesus but that is another story for another day).

So at the end of the day(pun intended) it is great to not have to be bound by this useless and stupid rule. Who the hell needs to be stressed out about being stuck in traffic at Magrib time and the kids are still outside when the devils are sweeping about. Or creating unnecessary fears in your children’s minds that they carry into adulthood and spread to their children. Maybe we will all sit outside this evening at Maghrib time just to spite all of the jinn.

]]>https://evebitestheapple.wordpress.com/2016/09/13/fringe-benefits-part-11-go-outside-in-the-evening/feed/0evebitestheapplesun-settingFringe Benefits – part 10 – play board games with dice and play chesshttps://evebitestheapple.wordpress.com/2016/09/12/fringe-benefits-part-10-play-board-games-with-dice-and-play-chess/
https://evebitestheapple.wordpress.com/2016/09/12/fringe-benefits-part-10-play-board-games-with-dice-and-play-chess/#respondTue, 13 Sep 2016 04:41:31 +0000http://evebitestheapple.wordpress.com/?p=396I was in the store and saw some dice for sale while I was shopping for something else. It made me think of the Islamic ruling against playing games with dice and against playing chess so I decided to add it here. I briefly tried to locate the official ruling but as with all stupid Islamic laws it wasn’t easy to find.

It is known that chess is forbidden in Islam. Yes, people will pop up and say that they know so-and-so Muslim who plays chess. As one Muslim speaker once said, “You can’t judge Islam by the Muslim.” Just because someone sees a Muslim doing something doesn’t mean that it is permissible in Islam.

Those precious dice became a no-no in our house and we had to say goodbye to board games. I think I wanted to get a game of Monopoly or something for the kids and the ex flipped out(as usual) and said that it was haraam. I imagine some of the newer “sheikhs” have come out with squeaky clean interpretations of hadith and new fatwa that allow certain types of dice that can be used. The nature of Islam is pure deception for that is how it spreads. It wouldn’t be much for scholars to re-interpret the words of Muhammad for the sake of making Islam palatable to the kafireen(disbelievers) until they have been subdued.

So, at any rate, I am free to use dice for board games with the family or gambling if I want. I wouldn’t be surprised if Muhammad was doing a little gambling of his own and got beat out of his money. So then he got mad and all of sudden, presto, Allah sends down an all too convenient inspiration to Muhammad to ban the use of dice.

What a wretched religion.

]]>https://evebitestheapple.wordpress.com/2016/09/12/fringe-benefits-part-10-play-board-games-with-dice-and-play-chess/feed/0evebitestheapplediceMy Kim Davis moment, allah the failed astronomer, and other thoughtshttps://evebitestheapple.wordpress.com/2016/08/24/my-kim-davis-moment-allah-the-failed-astronomer-and-other-thoughts/
https://evebitestheapple.wordpress.com/2016/08/24/my-kim-davis-moment-allah-the-failed-astronomer-and-other-thoughts/#respondWed, 24 Aug 2016 22:00:00 +0000http://evebitestheapple.wordpress.com/?p=390There has been some news lately that covers a burkini ban somewhere in Europe and new battle brewing over the Muslim swimwear line. I read a few headlines in passing and it made me decide to log-in to see if there was an uptick in stats due to people searching for burkini. Sure enough there has been a little bump. Not much though because this blog doesn’t get many views anyway which is fine because I’m not in it for blogging dollars. At any rate, I decided to dust the old blog off a little bit and type out a few thoughts that have been on my mind lately but I didn’t write about.

I was walking home one night and while gazing at the sky it made me think about Muslims and their claim that Muhammad foretold of a barrier between the waters in the sea. I can’t find my Quran and am too lazy to Google the verse but many Muslims are at least faintly familiar with claims that Muhammad revealed a difference between fresh water and sea water. His claim was that there was some sort of barrier between the waters that makes them different. I believe they call this “Miracles of the Quran” and Muslim talib-ul-ilm have given lectures based on these so-called miracles.

Muslims can mislead with these statements because: 1) If they tell this stuff to a bunch of uneducated learners then will probably believe it and 2) they never bother to break down the Arabic to see what the word barrier referred to. They then go on to make these great exhortations that Islam is the truth and Allah is the true God because he revealed these things to Muhammad before science and the Greek philosophers had discovered them. When in reality Muhammad probably spent all of his time in that cave reading over materials and the coming back with his “revelations”. When the Jews of Yemen called him out on his fraud he tried to cover it up by saying he couldn’t read. Allah even went so far as to whip out an ayah or two in response to Yemeni Jewish criticism.

You don’t have to be rocket scientist or have your own Archangel deliver personal messages to you from God to figure out there is a difference between sea water and fresh water and then come to a primitive conclusion that there some sort of barrier between the waters. For one, no physical barrier exists which is what Muhammad alluded to. Muslims try to change the meaning to a very loose interpretation meaning there is some sort of invisible barrier that causes the two not to mix. Keep in mind, this is coming from the very sheikhs who insisted that the eartjh was flat even after it had been proven otherwise and that anyone who did not agree was going against the word of Allah and should be killed.

No barrier exists in the manner that Muhammad mentioned. He only posited a theory when he came across two types of water, one bitter and salty and the other fresh tasting. However his theory was wrong yet Muslims pass this terrible science all around the globe under the guise of threats that this is the only true way when it is anything but. So how does this relate to my evening trek and staring at the stars? I figured if Allah, the all-knowing, can reveal the miracles to Muhammad about a barrier in the rivers and sea then why didn’t Allah bother to reveal knowledge about barriers in the sky, air, and space?

I mean wouldn’t that make sense while He was at it? It took years for scientists to breakdown different types of levels of oxygen in the air and break the levels up into different spheres until you are on the edge of space. So why didn’t Allah happen to mention this barrier that covers the earth and separates space “air” from earth air? Rest assured if you pose a question like that then Muslims(or any religious person for that matter) will quickly shut it down and claim that God chose to reveal some secrets and chose to keep some secrets hidden. But that still doesn’t explain Muhammad other faulty and wrong miracles but hey at the end of the day “you just need to have faith in Allah sister, fear the Iblis and the shayateen, not ask so many questions, and make more du’a”. And then change the subject.

About a year or so ago, there was a big hulla-balloo surrounding Kim Davis and her refusal to issue marriage certificates to gay couples. Her reasoning was that, as a Christian, she was bound by the law of God and it superseded her employers laws. I was going to write about a similar incident I had when I was a practicing Muslim but never got around to so I guess I will explore it today.

I am not gay/lesbian so this is issue I was facing did not have to do with marriage licenses although Muslim marriage certificates can go through some skirmishes with the polygyny thing and all of that. A problem arose with a female employee and my renewing my driver’s license in the Deep South. No doubt she was a die hard Christian as many older, white women in the Southern United States are. A little back story first though.

A few years prior a Muslimah in Winter Park, Florida decided to challenge drivers license photo pictures. She argued that she should not be forced to remove her niqab for license photos because it violated her religious beliefs. She tried, unsuccessfully, to have the law changed where she could take a photo with full face veil. Even though I sported the niqab, I did not agree with her tactics as it defeated the purpose to of photo identification if your face would be covered in the photo. There were other measures she could take if she didn’t want to be seen: go at an earlier time when it was less busy, ask if she could have a separate room, or go with a male family member who might try to shield her from view as much as possible. But trying to get the state to alter the law for a photo not showing the face was a useless battle in mu opinion.

Which it proved to be because she lost. Not only did she lose but hackers got ahold of her personal information and plastered it all over the internet. It included full blown pictures of her without hijab and arrest information during her time as a kafirah. Not only did that happen but it set off a domino effect for other states reviewing their laws license photos and creating new ones that explicitly stated no head gear of any kind could be worn in the photo. So there was no real problem as related to the identification because Islamic sheikhs and scholars argue all day and night about if the niqab id mandatory or not. She could have taken her photo with hijab and been done with it. But no, instead she caused a change in law where Muslim women were now forced to remove their hijab as well.

However this did not last long because when religious groups start trying to force one set of archaic beliefs over another set of archaic beliefs, they never stop to look at who else they may be effecting. In this case it was nuns, Sikhs, cancer patients/medically ill, and any other class of people that routinely covered their hair. The state I tried to renew license in was one of those states that responded to the niqab controversy by quickly implementing laws that prevented anyone from wearing anything on their head or face when it came photos for legal identification. I had moved away for some time and then moved back and was not aware of this until my fateful day with meeting the Kim Davis mentor.

In the back of mind, I knew I should have gone to the downtown location because they would have been easier to work with. But I was pregnant, had small children, and was at a W.I.C. office building that was literally only a few steps from a license renewal office. Granted it was back in Redneckville and I expected some backlash but I just didn’t have the energy to go 30-45 minutes away to downtown. I wound up having to do that anyway because the lady at the counter refused to allow me to renew my license unless I removed ALL headgear. I was fine with pulling up the niqab and taking a full face photo as I had done so many times before but she claimed it all had to come off.

Apparently she ran into her office and contacted the division in the capitol city while I was standing in line. I know because she admitted it after we got into an argument. She asked them to quickly fax over a copy of the law that stated no one could wear head coverings in identification photos. Once she got her fax she made it a point to come rushing over to me and told me I couldn’t take a photo with any coverings and she had proof. Perhaps she was feeling emboldened by the blood of Jesus(and a shot of noonday whiskey) and like she was some type of hero but this quickly escalated into a argument where I chewed her out, snatched her little paper, demanded that she write down her name and her director’s name on a card, and a then I left. A few days later I went downtown, snapped my little picture with the hijab on and full face showing, got my license, and left.

Not too long after that the new law was quickly repealed and overturned. Had it not been, I would have been the one suing the state. While southern Christians thought they were being clever they were not. In their efforts to solve a non-existant problem and block Muslims from wearing head coverings, they created a bigger one. Soon after this new law was implemented not only did the license division have to force Muslims to remove their head coverings they also had to force Nuns to remove their habits. They had to force orthodox Jewish women to remove their coverings. They had to force Sikhs to remove their head coverings. They had to force orthodox Christian and Mormon women to remove any head covering they had. They had to force cancer patients to remove their wigs becausee that was not their natural hair and the wig fell under the rule of head covering. All of these people turned up at a meeting to overturn the law and I suspect the state realized they not only looked like backwards fools but they were also facing a massive lawsuit if they didn’t quickly repeal the law.

So G.I. Jane and her band of Christian zealots want to use the state and government to take on G.I. Aminah and her band of Muslim zealots. However this leads to a more important question on the role of religion and the state in governance of a society. I am of the opinion that religion and government are one and the same and it always has been as it shapes the structure to which the society functions. So if that is the case should a religious person be allowed to let their beliefs supersede their duties of employment?

Case 1:

Maryann, who is 16 years old, was date raped by a boy on their first night out. Even though she fought back and was clear with her “NO” the boy was stronger than her and he was successful in penetration and ejaculation. She did not tell anyone because people would think she was a slut and that she must have wanted it if she went on a date with the guy. The sex resulted in a pregnancy. She was a small girl and carried the pregnancy in a way that no one could tell until she went into delivery.

The state she lived in recently passed a law that said any women could abort child all the way up until 40 weeks or up until the feet had exited the womb. So that meant if the head had been pushed out but not the feet then the doctor could still kill the baby and neither the mother nor the doctor would be charged with murder under the guise of her body, her choice. Maryann reveals to her shocked parents during labor that she doesn’t want the baby and the state says she can abort it before the feet pass out of the womb. She does not need their permission so she is going to have it done.

Dr. Rebecca is the physician who is going to deliver Maryann’s baby is a strict Pessimatarian(made that up) and her beliefs do not condone any abortions. She has never been faced with having to kill a child a 40 weeks but she never thought about it because she knew outright she wouldn’t do it. Due to scheduling conflicts , Dr. Rebecca is the only doctor on staff that can deliver Maryann’s baby and sign off on it. Dr. Rebecca has received notification that her patient want to abort her child. She refuses stating her religious beliefs and goes into the room to inform the patient and her parents that she will not murder the baby no matter what state law states. She lets the patient know she can deliver the baby and put it up for adoption, no questions asked, or go to another hospital.

So while this scenario has several conundrums going on the question is: Is Dr. Rebecca correct to for placing her religious beliefs over the duties of her employment and the laws of state? Why or why not?

Yes these are two wildly different scenarios, one being showing your face in a photo and the other involving the murder of baby but the premise is the same. Can or should a person be allowed to put their religious convictions over state, federal and government rulings(as relates the U.S.). If so, why? Common responses are:

It is a widely recognized religion. This is a poor answer. Who decides which religions are accepted and which one aren’t? What are their criteria for judging which religion is to be accepted and which one is to denied? What if one religion is in gross opposition to another religion?

God is my ruler and God has allowed/disallowed so-and-so subject. This is a poor answer. There are plenty of modern problems that God does not mention at all that must be resolved with secular principles, debates, and laws. Which God is the correct God? Who decides?

So-and-so religion fought many wars and was the victor, thus it is the only belief system to be followed. What if that belief system also says all followers must hand over all of their earnings to the state and serve them in totality without questioning or be killed. Just because a belief system won by the sword or by might doesn’t make all of its rulings correct.

Well I’m just going to adhere to and have faith in this belief system anyway. As an adult, most people also accepted the U.S. belief system of having the freedom to do whatever they want, whenever they want* which is on opposition to this person’s faith. So why do you get to cherry-pick when you will adhere to your faith and when you will adhere to your country?

So the bottom line is that things are more complicated than just ban this or ban that or only follow this way or that way. People try to take complex issues and wind them down to catchy one-line attention grabbers that work the crowd into a tizzy. I am a big supporter of banning Islam and its practice for reasons I may list in another post. However I say this with the knowledge that it takes more than banning something to develop well-rounded laws and principles to develop the structure of a society that form its application of ethics and morality going forward.

*whatever they want, whenever they want – I am not a believer in this line of thinking even as an agnostic atheist so it doesn’t apply to me.

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https://evebitestheapple.wordpress.com/2016/07/04/oblivious-randomness/#respondTue, 05 Jul 2016 02:37:42 +0000http://evebitestheapple.wordpress.com/?p=388I had the most random thought today. I was about to run some errands and the thought popped into my head about how much easier life is without having to plan a day around prayers. I probably wrote about this before in a past post but I guess with Ramadan wrapping up and my kids visiting their Muslim father during this time might have made it cross my mind. Dear Lord having to plan around prayers was such huge pain in the ass especially when the days were short and the prayers were to top on each other. Coupled with trying to drag small babies into one store and out the other or a doctor’s office or a friend’s house was stressful enough. Then on top of that you have find somewhere to stop and make wudhu then pray. What a hassle that shit was and I am so glad it is no longer concern of mine.
]]>https://evebitestheapple.wordpress.com/2016/07/04/oblivious-randomness/feed/0evebitestheappleFringe benefits – Part 9 – Exercise and wear a regular swimsuithttps://evebitestheapple.wordpress.com/2015/05/14/fringe-benefits-part-9-exercise-and-wear-a-regular-swimsuit/
https://evebitestheapple.wordpress.com/2015/05/14/fringe-benefits-part-9-exercise-and-wear-a-regular-swimsuit/#commentsFri, 15 May 2015 02:21:51 +0000http://evebitestheapple.wordpress.com/?p=372I was searching through my drawer for something and I came across an old Muslim outfit that I forgot about. Several years ago I went to the YMCA and signed up for membership for my kids and me when I was a Muslim. After getting accepted, we went to the Y several times a week and I used pretty much everything in the facility even though I wore a jilbab and hijab. I had ditched the niqab by this time because it became too much of a nuisance especially since I was newly single. Eventually I went and bought a x-large mens long sleeved shirt and baggy pants so I could have better workout wear without breaking the religious commandments of covering my awrah. This allowed my to spend plenty of time on the weight machines, free weight area, stationary cardio machines, indoor track, and the video game room. I was able to use everything EXCEPT the pool. This Y had a huge heated indoor lap pool, a jacuzzi, and a sauna. Every time we went I would feel the cool breeze of chlorinated water and long to feel the water on my skin once again. There was no way to escape it either because the building was designed to pass by the pool at every angle. Even in the dressing room the cool water beckoned with every beach towel flung over a changing stall. Working out on the weights didn’t do much to quell my desire to jump in either. All of the sweating from deadlifts, shoulder presses, and seated rows with all of the clothes I had on just intensified my desire jump in just once. After awhile I started to feel like crack fiend that wanted just one hit. It was like thinking “the pool, it be callin me man, it be callin me”.

One day, a sister on Facebook mentioned that she was going to Jordan and asked if any sisters wanted anything back. This was usually for things that were difficult to find in the states or were too expensive: jilbabs, thoubs, some books, oils, et cetera. By this time a new swimsuit had hit the marketplace. It was designed specifically for Muslim women although it was marketed to other women with similar religious body covering requirements and also those with skin conditions. Still it was a major joke in circles and caught a lot of flak. Mainly because it defeated the purpose of covering the female body. While it may have covered the skin it was not loose fitting and stuck to all curves like glue. I never would have purchased such a contraption a few years prior but as my resolve began to weaken from watching all the people frolick and splash in the pool, I began to contemplate a purchase. After asking several sisters about their swimsuit experiences, I no longer cared, broke down, and asked the sister to purchase a special Muslim swimsuit for me while she was in Jordan. That’s right, I am embarrassed to admit I bought and wore….a burkini.

My knockoff burkini from Jordan

A burkini is supposed to be a combination of the words burqa and bikini. Burqas are famously known as the blue coverings that Afghan women don when they leave the house or are around a non-related male. The rest is self explanatory. The sister mailed my new special swimsuit to me when she got back and I did not waste not one second going to the Y to swim. I got a knock off version of the real deal so perhaps it was a little tighter than the brand name. I didn’t know and didn’t care, all I could think of was “pool here I come”. I didn’t care that some supposedly invisible angels were writing down my deed of swimming, I couldn’t suit up fast enough. I didn’t care how ridiculous it looked to Western eyes, I just wanted people to move out of the way.

To be honest, it was comparable to wearing wet suit and left me feeling a little underwhelmed with the swimming experience. Because so much of my skin and hair was covered by the burkini, I still didn’t get the pleasure of feeling the cool water. While I may have been in the water the only sensation I had was on my face, hands, and feet. While the fabric was lightweight, the weave was tight and non-porous so not a whole lot of water got through. I also tried to sit in the jacuzzi and the sauna but it was much too hot and I wound up feeling deflated and like it really wasn’t worth the effort.

That wasn’t my first time swimming since I had accepted Islam. When I was pregnant with my second child I went to a swim class for pregnant women that was supposed to be closed off for women only. I also paid for a private pool rental at another YMCA for all the Muslim sisters. But that was tedious because not only did I have to fork over $150 but I had to go early to cover all the windows. Even then, Muslimahs aren’t allowed to completely uncover in front of each other(depending on which school of thought was followed) so we still swam in t-shirts and capri length shorts. After that I never bothered with the pool until the burkini incident. Some sisters husbands would purchase a house with a pool and they would hold private pool parties but it just wasn’t the same as swimming in jahiliyyah.

As I type this, my daughters are at a pool now and I feel glad that they are free from the bondage of Islam that would prevent them from enjoying such an activity. The only thing I have heard of more ridiculous is Mormons being forbidden to swim. My plans were to take my kids to the beach and let them wear real bathing suits but the finances have not allowed it. As for me, on my bucket list is to go to nude beach(probably Haulover in Miami) and let the sun and water touch every inch of my body the way it should be.

I also scheduled a spin class for sisters at the Y but only two showed up and I once attempted to play a game of tennis in full hijab with another sister. Trying to orchestrate exercise around all of Islam’s retarded rules is burdensome and causes Muslim women to lead unhealthy lives. I’m sure some Muslim will retort that if America were like Saudi and had female only facilities that wouldn’t be a problem. However that is not the solution. It is not natural to have to go from one building to another all covered up just to get your heart rate up. You should be able to jog down the street in shorts and a tank and not be restricted in your choice of exercise to appease some made up god.

The lifestyle regulation of Muslims in general is unhealthy overall and is even moreso for Muslim women. The combination of loose gowns, lack of exercise, lack of sun, regularly being pregnant, and constantly fasting probably plays a role in the unspoken problem of depression amongst Muslim women. I ballooned up to 185(from 145) my first year as a Muslimah due to wearing the loose fitting garbs that don’t let you account for food intake. Not to mention how Muslims are discouraged from doing anything unappealing to Allah(which is a lot) and that results in a lot of sitting around and gaining weight.

After my second son was born, Taebo was all the rage and I got my hands on a couple of the tapes. Within 2 1/2 months of chugging nothing but Milo’s tea and 4 hours of daily Taebo cardio, I had incinerated all of the fat(30-35 pounds) and was down to 155 pounds and 2 pack. My hourglass was on its way back and my peephole(thigh gap). While this is not something I would ever recommend doing again, it worked to undo the the damage and help me break a plateau(I usually plateau around 160).

However, even though I reached that milestone the most I would get for my efforts from Muslims was that I was sinning by working out to music or looking at a half naked man on an aerobic video. Being to vain for worrying about my shape when it is better to be concerned with the Allah and Jannah, blah blah blah. The Taebo creator Billy Blanks and his daughter Shellie were in town at a free event at a church once. I went and even though I didn’t partake in the exercises(my son did) I told a sister about it and she behaved as though I had committed some grave sin equivalent to murder. Islam and Muslims would put forward that it is better to be fat, tired, depressed, and unhealthy than to partake in any exercise to improve your state of mind and state of being.

Pool, here I come

So that is one of the many fringe benefits of apostating. Not only can I purchase and wear a regular swimsuit and enjoy a splash in the pool without looking like I am training to be a Navy seal but I can engage in activities that will enhance, and not encumber, my mind, body, and spirit.

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https://evebitestheapple.wordpress.com/2015/03/09/the-downside-to-apostasy/#respondMon, 09 Mar 2015 22:28:05 +0000http://evebitestheapple.wordpress.com/?p=368I often write about the fringe benefits of apostating from Islam and rarely see any negative effects of apostasy, if that is what you want to call them. Granted there aren’t many but they do exist. I am speaking from the perspective of an American woman who, for the most part, have the freedom to bounce around from religion to religion with little to no adverse effects other than being disowned from family or viewed as being weird and indecisive. It is not like Saudi or other middle eastern countries governed by Islam where you risk being flogged, jailed, or losing your life for bouncing between beliefs. That is most definitely a negative effect of Islam and one that needs to be eradicated.

What I am speaking about are little nuances that have crept up from time to time that resulted from my leaving Islam that I never thought be a problem until now. When you convert, most Muslims feel like they are going to be Muslim until they die. And many people do remain that way although probably out of fear more than true belief in the system of Islam.

As of late one of those negative side effects has been rearing its face. For quite some time I have been both underemployed and unemployed, an uneasy combination of being a stay-at-home mom for the time I was “married” through my “divorce” and continuing through my apostasy, life has been difficult but bearable. I have been heading into a different phase lately while reconstructing my life from the effects of Islam(which I hope to write about soon) and have been applying for jobs. During the application process many employers ask for references. This is nothing new it is just some that I have not had to deal with in a very long while.

I was going through an old application I filled out while I was still Muslim and noticed I had references listed on the application. However they were all old Muslim friends and they were people I no longer speak to. Excluding one friend who eventually apostated as well, all of them broke off their friendship with me the minute I disowned Islam. People who claimed to love me and care about me went completely ghost the minute I no longer practiced the same belief or spoke highly of their belief system.

One sister called me crying and asked why I chose what I did but that she ultimately didn’t want to know because she knows how thorough I am about research and my decisions. That was the last I heard from her. This was a woman that had been present at almost all the births of my children, halaqas together, confiding in one another, Ramadans together, Eids together, the whole kit and caboodle. Poof, just like that, the friendship was obliterated the minute I decided not practice Islam. She is one of the references listed on my application.

There are several others who cancelled our friendship and yet there are some sisters that I still speak to occasionally who don’t see it as a threat. Although sometimes I wonder if they weren’t married would they still be Muslim but that is a different issue. Sheep mentality comes to mind.

Islam has a way of, and is designed to, absorb your entire life. It is painted as a full scale solution and model for a fulfilled life when it is anything but. On occasion, Muhammad and the other creators of Islam, got a few issues right but it is not a testament that the religion is true or that there is an existence of Allah or any other invisible god for that matter. When you convert, Islam becomes your entire life from cradle to grave, waking to sleeping, work to play, and every other facet of your life. This also happens in other religious cults including the various forms of Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, and so on so this lesson can be applied across the board. You can fill in the blank with any of these religious denominations and still get the same benefits and negative effects, it is not just limited to Islam.

Your friends become adopted family especially if you converted and are the only Muslim in your kafir family. Your community, your life becomes Islam all of the time and it is expected you will live and breathe in the fold. Even as the trouble spots start to creep up, the Muslim family comes racing to quell any and every disquiet in your mind typically known as “whispers of the shaytan”. Your love life, your work, your sleeping, your eating, your parents, your community, even your bathroom proclivities, EVERYTHING centers around Islam. It is socialism on steroids. Or like socialism, fascism, and communism got together and had a baby and Islam was the result.

Once you apostate, all or much of that is lost depending on how many roots you have in the religion. A single person with no Muslim family members who accepted Islam and apostated after a few months may not feel the same negative effects as an Indonesian Muslim child born and raised in that environment. It is a sliding scale and the effects will be felt as such. I feel like I am somewhere near the middle because I converted and wasn’t born into it. Yet I have several children by a man who is still Muslim and I was entangled in the life for 14 years. I walked around with full black hijab, jilbab, and niqab(as if they have crows on their heads) the majority of the time and was pretty embedded in the belief. However, I took issue with many things that Islam taught(thus the source of many an argument between the ex and I) so I don’t feel I was anywhere near the extremist level but not so soft that I was barely recognized as a Muslimah.

Now that I am back to my old life I see how ridiculous indoctrination of any stripe can impact your life from the small inconvenience to the large problem. Two such ways I have encountered this issue thus far has been what to do about new references and trying to explain my name change. For 14 years all of my friends and family were Muslim and I have not gotten out to establish new bonds with new non-Muslim friends for them to vouch for me as a reference(I tried dabbling in the atheist community for a while to make new connections but that is a different story of indoctrination for a different day).

So many a time I stare blankly at the reference section trying to figure out what to do. Ultimately I just add family members but I feel bad for apostates whose family has disowned them and they have no one to fall back on. Interestingly I used to argue with the ex that if I wasn’t going to work at a job then I needed to volunteer somewhere so that I would have continuous work experience and work references even if I wasn’t receiving a salary. My argument was that he wasn’t guaranteed to live forever, Muslims couldn’t purchase life insurance, and its not like he was fully providing for us so this would help me in the event of financial disaster. But he would howl and whine and thus it never happened. So now I have this weird gap in my career and references that looks odd to employers and raises eyebrows. And this has definitely proven to be a negative effect of apostating. Or more like a negative effect of being Muslim.

The other negative effect is that I changed my name legally during the whole salafee spree of getting rid of your kafir name for a more appropriate Islamic name. My name change is on all official documents including most of my childrens birth certificates so I have spent almost 20 years legally known as someone else. The only people who know me by birth name are family, high school, and old college associates most of whom I’ve lost contact with. People are always asking me about the origins of my name and how my parents must have been history buffs to choose it. Foolishly, I used to launch into an explanation of the name and that I chose it myself. I have since learned to pick and choose whether I bother to tell anyone that story though because people often want to know more and I have no desire to tell complete strangers that I was once Muslim unless it proves useful on some level.

So this comes up when I fill out background checks for employment and other applications that ask if you have ever been known by another name. Which technically shouldn’t be a problem, you should be able to name yourself Barney Clown if you want but many people want to know why an adult voluntarily changed their name or it raises flags. Especially in government employment that requires special clearances. A professional employer may not be swayed by something so simple but the average local U.S. employer is not professional so they get bent out of shape over name change and may not hire you or select you for a contract. If push comes to shove I can always say I was the victim of some sort of abuse and changed my name to protect myself but at this time I do not feel that it is necessary. It does illustrate how seemingly mundane religious requirements or even recommendations can have a negative impact on your life.

The drivers license was also a problem for awhile because I had hijab on in the picture in my old picture and bank tellers would inquire about it because I was no longer wearing it. Anyone who needed id would look at me weird when I had to present it and thus I was so relieved when it expired and I could get a new license. But then I run back into the name change issue at the DMV and many social service offices because I have to drag my name change papers with me wherever I go when filling out official government forms. This will become more complicated in the foreseeable future because I plan on having my childrens last name changed back to their fathers family name instead of one he chose sometime after we got together. That is Islam, making life complicated for 1400 years.